Birth trauma stories
If you’ve been through a traumatic birth, it can help to read other people’s stories. Over the past few years, many women, and a few men, have kindly shared their stories with us.
Category
- Birth injury
- Brain injury
- C-section
- Caesarean
- Consent
- Episiotomy
- Erb's palsy
- Forceps
- Haematoma
- Healing birth
- Induction
- Infection
- Kidney failure
- Long labour
- Medical negligence
- NICU
- PND
- PPH
- PTSD
- Planned caesarean
- Postpartum haemorrhage
- Retained placenta
- SCBU
- Sepsis
- Shoulder dystocia
- Ventouse
- caesarean
- induction
Chloe’s story
I’m Chloe and I'm 31 years old. I had my daughter in 2020 during the COVID pandemic. I suffer with PTSD due to the birth trauma and it’s extremely hard now as I am expecting my second daughter later this year.
Sharmika’s story
I was 17 when I found out I was pregnant. I was very shocked at first but always dreamed of having a beautiful baby and family so I decided to keep my blessing.
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